Rail-joint.



M. F. HALLBR.

BAIL JOINT. APPLICATION FILED 11mm, 1914.

1 1 1 7,0380 Patentd Nov. 10, 914.

' M'enlo, in the county of-Pacific-and State of Washington, have invented certain new Iand useful, Improvements 'in- Rail-Joints and I do her' by declare the-following to bea full,

' Another object of the-i rails will be securely held flogetherlto eli lifprovide a joint chair which is provided with h an extension'to enga e the under. side of the oess 3, and the openends of the recesses are Tolall whoin z't mag concermrclear, andi'exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled-in the art to which it I has for its principal iobject to provide a de- .15

" rails-in proper osition and: prevent the ends of rails which causess id ends to be With theseand othenobjec ts in'yiew, the.

V tiona'l view. of Fig- 1, and, "Fig.- 3 isi'a trans-i 40 Shown in Fig. 2, which are arranged tofact arrangedto abut the under side of the hea s5.

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Application filed m 5; 1914. ,se iai no. 82231:;

" Be i kn'own that I,-MAx F-,. Haai,- a citizen of the United States, v residing" at appertains toimak'e and use the same. v

-This invention relates to new and useful improvements in railroadrail joints, and

en ma; will holdfthe endsof abuttingsalp'efrom, sinki g or coming outof aline- 'ment.

vention is to.p1'*o-' vid'e ajoint chair'in which the ends of the nate' the usual space -occurring between" he come worn and also is excee 'ngly wearing ongthe rollihg stock.

I Still anotherfiobject f-the inyention isyto rail hea\d a dstrengt en the same to preventit from twisting.

invention consists in the novel combination I and arrangement. of parts as will be fully-- set forthin the following specification; and accompanying' drawings, in. which,

Figure l is a side view in elevation of a; joint'chair constructed in aclcordancdwith this invention, 'Fig. 2 is a longitudinal secverse sectional [View taken on 'line 3 '-3. of Fig. 1. a

eferring now to the drawings 'by; characters of refer nce, the npmerals 1 and 2 designate generally theends of abutting rails; each of which is provided with there providedwiththe rounded walls t'as' clearly as guides for placing the rails in place when. the device is to be put in use. 4 The rail joint which is designated gen-.

erally by the ,numeral- 5 preferably com- I prises a pair of angle plates 6 which a e of the. rails, 'and form a support therefor,

Specification of I: While i' th Lettrsratent.

etenteii some 1914- the flange engaging ;nieInbers 'as'--cl eai'ly shown in Fig.8 whichflterminate at their free ends in the eff-set angular extension 7 as will 'beclearly seen upon referring tothe' drawings. Secured to the angleplates in, the 'web"engag1ng pbrtion. and intermediate" the ends of'sald angle platesis provided the fit within the; recesses 'forined in the rails and thereby'prifent said railsjfrolncomin'g out efahn'ementd.

V A suitable chair designatedgenerally by! the numeral 9, is provideda, (1 .co prises the.b ase .tion 11 ich isarrangedto engage. one of the flange engagingmembers of the' a ngle plate 6 as'clea'rly illustrated in Fi' 3. The

commectiiig--me mber 8 which is arrange'd to plate' 10 havingtlie-be t' ba 1: p

. ioppo sitel'edge of 'the.b.as e plate 10 is bent I back upon itself and arrangedto engagethe angular extension 7 and. is again bent;

.-upwardly as at 12 to- .-form the ngularly --"ext'end' n g portion .having the an ula'r' ext tension 13" which abuts the underside oii'the -head of the rail.

n" will be evident from the foa'gan aa f ,in us the rails which -are to be-j'oined are provided with the ..recesses- :3 and theends of the rai s slippedfb'etween the angle plates'-' 6 so hat'the' portion 8 lie's'ihthe. recesses andl h lds the rails indirect alineinent.-' The. chair is then slipped over the whole and-,thej

device will then appear 'as' illustrated in "the -drawings,'thereby'forining a tight and effi r cient railjjointt without the use of nuts or} bohts which maybe easily p'laced in position an which'will'holdlthe rails firmly .in'the I desiredposition without necessitating the.

'use of nuts and bolts and also withoutneces s'itating any. loss rice in position.

of time in the de I foregoing there has, shown and described the preferred emhodi ment-of'this invention, it is to be un'derstood thatsu'ch changes may he made'in the-- of the rails, a.- connecting element between In a device'of the character"described,ithe' 1,1 meet the angle plates and mlapted to hold. the provioled with an angular extension efilzqpt same in spacednrelation, said connecting eleed to engage the under side of the rail heads Inent being adapted to fitthe recesses in the to prevent the same from twisting ends of the rails to hold the rails in direct In testimony whereof ll affiX my signature 5 alinement, angular extensions formed on in presence of two'witnesses.

free edg es ef the angle plates, the oppo- MAX E P Q ELERQ slte edges 01 send-angle plates engagmg the underside of the rail heads, and it jeiret Witnesses: chair adapted to surround the Whole to helcl E. W. BRIGEAM,

10 the device firmly in place said chair being Mrs. E. W. BRIGHAM. 

